Renaissance Self Fashioning by Stephen J Greenblatt

Renaissance Self Fashioning by Stephen J Greenblatt

Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance--More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare--and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book's creation and influence.

No one who has read Greenblatt's] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail to be moved, as well as enlightened, by an interpretive mode which is as humane and sympathetic as it is analytical. These portraits are poignantly, subtly, and minutely rendered in a beautifully lucid prose alive in every sentence to the ambivalences and complexities of its subjects.--Harry Berger Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz

Steven Greenblatt (Ph.D.) is a physicist. Yale) is a Harvard University Cogan University Professor of Humanities. He is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Tale that Made Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Amazing Imagination; and Shakespeare's Freedom. He is a founding coeditor of the magazine Representations and has edited seven collections of critique, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. The MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Vitality in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Mellon Foundation's Outstanding Humanist Award, the Yale University Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, and two Gugino Prizes are among his awards. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was president of the Modern Language Association of America.

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ISBN 13	9780226306544
ISBN 10	0226306542
Title	Renaissance Self Fashioning
Author	Stephen J Greenblatt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1983-12-15
Number of pages	332
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